The Miami Hurricanes entered their game against Georgia Tech on Saturday battered, bruised and with multiple starters on both sides of the ball too hurt to play in a key Coastal Division game.

Things only got worse on the injury front when, in the first half, linebacker Michael Pinckney left the game with a chest injury.

Pinckney didn’t return during Miami’s 25-24 win over the Yellow Jackets and his status for this week’s game against Syracuse remains in question, Hurricanes coach Mark Richt said on Sunday.

Richt classified Pinckney’s injury as something that could keep him out of the lineup on a “day-to-day” basis and he used the term again when discussing Miami’s other injured starters, a group that includes safety Sheldrick Redwine, receiver Ahmmon Richards, offensive lineman Navaughn Donaldson and safety Dee Delaney.

ESPN reported during its GameDay broadcast on Saturday that Delaney was expected to be out 6-8 weeks, but Richt denied that report Sunday.

“As far as injuries are concerned, the only thing new that I can think of is that Pinckney had a chest injury that will be kind of day-to-day and really, all those other guys will be day-to-day, other than Mark Walton who is out for the year,” Richt said.

One player that Richt seemed hopeful could play against the Orange is Richards, who has been hampered by a hamstring issue since training camp. Richards missed the first two games of the season, played against Duke and Florida State, but sat out the Georgia Tech game after going through warm-ups with his teammates.

“We considered using him,” Richt said. “He just wasn’t 100 percent. We don’t want this thing to last the whole season. We want to get him well and get him going. Our hope would be that he would play this week, but we had those hopes last week. We’ll see what happens.”